Portrait of Alan Brooke, 1942Oliver Leese, Harold Alexander, Winston Churchill, Alan Brooke, and Bernard Montgomery at Tripoli, Libya, date unknownPresident Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill confer with the Combined Chiefs of Staff during the Casablanca Conference at Roosevelt’s Dar es Saada villa in Casablanca, French Morocco, 18 Jan 1943.Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Casablanca Conference, French Morocco 22 Jan 1943; rear row L to R: Henry Arnold, Ernest King, George Marshall, Dudley Pound, Charles Portal, Alan Brooke, John Dill, Louis Mountbatten
Portrait of Alan Brooke, 1942Oliver Leese, Harold Alexander, Winston Churchill, Alan Brooke, and Bernard Montgomery at Tripoli, Libya, date unknownPresident Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill confer with the Combined Chiefs of Staff during the Casablanca Conference at Roosevelt’s Dar es Saada villa in Casablanca, French Morocco, 18 Jan 1943.Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Casablanca Conference, French Morocco 22 Jan 1943; rear row L to R: Henry Arnold, Ernest King, George Marshall, Dudley Pound, Charles Portal, Alan Brooke, John Dill, Louis Mountbatten
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Casablanca Conference, French Morocco 22 Jan 1943; rear row left to right: Brehon Somervell, Henry Arnold, Ernest King, George Marshall, Dudley Pound, Charles Portal, Alan Brooke, John Dill, Louis MountbattenFranklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and others at the White House during Trident Conference, Washington DC, United States, 24 May 1943Inspecting North African bases, Winston Churchill attends a USAAF 414th Bombardment Squadron briefing at Chateau-dun-du-Rhumel Airfield, Algeria, 31 May 1943; note Brooke, Marshall, EdenWinston Churchill presiding over the Allied Planning Conference, Algiers, Algeria, 4 Jun 1943; note Eden, Brooke, Tedder, Cunningham, Alexander, Marshall, Eisenhower, and Montgomery
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Casablanca Conference, French Morocco 22 Jan 1943; rear row left to right: Brehon Somervell, Henry Arnold, Ernest King, George Marshall, Dudley Pound, Charles Portal, Alan Brooke, John Dill, Louis MountbattenFranklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and others at the White House during Trident Conference, Washington DC, United States, 24 May 1943Inspecting North African bases, Winston Churchill attends a USAAF 414th Bombardment Squadron briefing at Chateau-dun-du-Rhumel Airfield, Algeria, 31 May 1943; note Brooke, Marshall, EdenWinston Churchill presiding over the Allied Planning Conference, Algiers, Algeria, 4 Jun 1943; note Eden, Brooke, Tedder, Cunningham, Alexander, Marshall, Eisenhower, and Montgomery
Mackenzie King, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Allied military leaders, Quebec, Canada, 18 Aug 1943Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff in Quebec, Canada for the Quadrant Conference, Aug 1943Alan Brooke, Winston Churchill, and Bernard Montgomery at MontgomeryDuring Winston Churchill’s tour of the Normandy front, he and high ranking officers pause to watch German dive-bombers being engaged by British fighters and anti-aircraft fire, 12 Jun 1944, Normandy, France.
Mackenzie King, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Allied military leaders, Quebec, Canada, 18 Aug 1943Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff in Quebec, Canada for the Quadrant Conference, Aug 1943Alan Brooke, Winston Churchill, and Bernard Montgomery at Montgomery's mobile headquarters in Normandy, France, 12 Jun 1944. Photo 1 of 2.During Winston Churchill’s tour of the Normandy front, he and high ranking officers pause to watch German dive-bombers being engaged by British fighters and anti-aircraft fire, 12 Jun 1944, Normandy, France.
Lt General Miles Dempsey, Field Marshall Sir Alan Brooke, Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts of the Union of South Africa at Château de Creully, Normandy, France, Jun 12 1944. Photo 2 of 2.Octagon Conferece, Sep 1944; sitting: Marshall, Leahy, Roosevelt, Churchill, Brooke, Dill; standing: Hollis, Ismay, King, Portal, Arnold, CunninghamWinston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin at the Livadia Palace near Yalta, Russia (now Ukraine), 9 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 3Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Alan Brooke, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, and Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower during an outdoor lunch break, 25 Mar 1945.
Lt General Miles Dempsey, Field Marshall Sir Alan Brooke, Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts of the Union of South Africa at Château de Creully, Normandy, France, Jun 12 1944. Photo 2 of 2.Octagon Conferece, Sep 1944; sitting: Marshall, Leahy, Roosevelt, Churchill, Brooke, Dill; standing: Hollis, Ismay, King, Portal, Arnold, CunninghamWinston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin at the Livadia Palace near Yalta, Russia (now Ukraine), 9 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 3Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Alan Brooke, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, and Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower during an outdoor lunch break, 25 Mar 1945.
Winston Churchill with his Chiefs of Staff at a luncheon at 10 Downing Street, London, England, United Kingdom, 7 May 1945, photo 1 of 2Winston Churchill with his Chiefs of Staff at a luncheon at 10 Downing Street, London, England, United Kingdom, 7 May 1945, photo 2 of 2
Winston Churchill with his Chiefs of Staff at a luncheon at 10 Downing Street, London, England, United Kingdom, 7 May 1945, photo 1 of 2Winston Churchill with his Chiefs of Staff at a luncheon at 10 Downing Street, London, England, United Kingdom, 7 May 1945, photo 2 of 2
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